April 10

Dancers from the Lusty Lady Club in San Francisco’s North Beach ratify their first-ever union contract by a vote of 57-15, having won representation by SEIU Local 790 the previous summer. The club later became a worker-owned cooperative - 1997

Also on this date: Birth date of Frances Perkins, named Secretary of Labor under President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933. 133 people, mostly women and girls, are killed when an explosion in the loading room tears apart the Eddystone Ammunition Works in Eddystone, Pa. Birth of Dolores Huerta, a co-founder, with Cesar Chavez, of the United Farm Workers. Tens of thousands of immigrants demonstrate in 100 U.S. cities in a national day of action.

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